1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1785-1

USN-1785-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

2 April 2013

Overview

Applications using poppler could be made to crash or possibly run programs as your login if they opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when
parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked
into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of
service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user
invoking the program.

It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when
parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked
into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of
service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user
invoking the program.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
8.04 hardy libpoppler2 –  0.6.4-1ubuntu3.6
libpoppler-glib2 –  0.6.4-1ubuntu3.6
12.10 quantal libpoppler-glib8 –  0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2
libpoppler28 –  0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2
12.04 precise libpoppler-glib8 –  0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1
libpoppler19 –  0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1
11.10 oneiric libpoppler-glib6 –  0.16.7-2ubuntu2.1
libpoppler13 –  0.16.7-2ubuntu2.1
10.04 lucid libpoppler-glib4 –  0.12.4-0ubuntu5.3
libpoppler5 –  0.12.4-0ubuntu5.3

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